You might want to take a look at the various online backup service
providers out there: Crashplan, Backblaze, etc. They offer good
services at reasonable prices ($50-60/year).
If you're keeping local and remote backups of multiple TBs of data,
these prices are are competitive with the costs of buying and replacing
your own backup drives.
Most of them do offer seamless encryption - their software and servers
take care of this without user intervention. Many offer to use keys
that only you hold, meaning the service can't decrypt anything without you.
There is the issue of that first big upload sync job. This does rely on
good upload speeds, or the use of "seeding" service in which you mail in
a physical drive that they'll load as the first backup set.
I've always been a roll-my-own guy, using my own drives, scripting and
scheduling native sync utilities (hooray for rsync!) and so on. But,
it's really gotten to the point where this isn't advantageous. The paid
backup providers offer great service, reasonable rates, and much more
durable protection that I can provide myself.
Take a look.
Here's a good comparative review:
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/
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